Current NHS consultant posts held
Countess of Chester Hospital
Chester
CH2 1UL
Research interests
Falls and Syncope
Osteoporosis
Orthogeriatrics
Publications
Professor Anand Prakash
MD, FRCP(London), FRCP(Edinburgh)
Consultant Physician Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
With Special interest in Falls, Syncope and Bone Health
Countess of Chester Hospital
Training Programme Director( MD Internal Medicine)
Chester Medical School, University of Chester.
Royal College of Physician Tutor.
Presently working as Consultant Physician in Care of the Elderly department at Countess of Chester Hospital and involved in developing Falls and fracture prevention service and also Orthogeriatrics liaison service. I am also establishing Osteoporosis service at the Countess of Chester hospital.
International MRCP Examiner for RCP London and Edinburgh
I was working as a Consultant in Geriatrics and General Medicine in Wrexham Maelor Hospital from November2007 till 14/01/2014 and was instrumental in developing Falls service across North Wales.
Completed Specialist Registrar training in Northern Deanery Newcastle up on Tyne.
Research
1. Was principal investigator in Research project at Sunderland Royal Hospital. We also received grant from British Geriatrics Society.
Significance of pulmonary hypertension in subjects investigated with transthoracic echocardiography for suspected heart failure (SOPHIE)
Joint project of Geriatrics and Cardiology department. ( 2005-2007)
2. I have successfully completed research on “Acute Myocardial Infarction –An Echocardiographic Assessment “ during my MD in India. After successful completion of this research I was awarded MD degree. This was an assessment of cardiac function in patients, who presented with Acute myocardial Infarction (diagnosed either clinically or by ECG) and ECHO was done on all of them within 24hrs and results were analysed (1994-1997)
3. Completed research ‘Significance of Visual-spatial impairment in Fallers’ Presented in international falls conference 2011
4. Currently involved in a research project ‘Comprehensive Geriatrics Assessment: Taken the patient in to the Team.’ Joint project Care of the elderly and Acute Medicine.
Publications & Presentations
Have written three chapters for Oxford text book of Anaesthesia on aging. This is in the process of publication.
More than 20 National and International publications
More than 15 National and International Presentations
Courses offered to GPs
Funny Turns and Falls
Osteoporosis
Syncope
